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FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

there’s more to an illegal than how they entered the country.

You're going to have to explain what the word means to me then, because the phrase by itself doesn't even seem to refer to immigration status at all and I don't know what you mean by it.

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jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I gave you the definition of illegal here.

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- FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I gave you the definition of illegal here.
  
  One that doesn't fit with your later claim that it isn't derogatory so both assertions cannot be true.
  
  The word you used doesn't even mention people so what is it to which you are referring when you use it?
  
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  - jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    One that doesn’t fit with your later claim that it isn’t derogatory so both assertions cannot be true.
    
    There is nothing in the definition that says illegal is a derogatory term. Remember when you forgot about the word sometimes.
    
    The word you used doesn’t even mention people so what is it to which you are referring when you use it?
    
    The first 3 words in the definition of illegal are “a person who”. When I say illegal I’m referring to a person who has entered or resides in the US illegally.
    
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    FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    There is nothing in the definition that says illegal is a derogatory term.
    
    There very much is, even if we limit our definitions to the one which you gave me. I pointed as much out to you 23 hours ago.
    
    When I say illegal I’m referring to a person who has entered or resides in the US illegally.
    
    That isn't what that word means except as a slur which your very precious dictionary even cops to.
    
    You still have not answered my inquest regarding how using an adjective as a noun to refer to a person could be anything other than dehumanizing as you still claim that it can potentially be.
    
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